And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. (Psalm 40:3)
If you look at a full orchestra score, you find all the individual orchestra parts. The full score is for the conductor. Each one of the instruments has only their own individual part.
You might have a violin that plays a good bit. Or you might have a cello that plays every now and then. Much of the piece, they’re just counting. Their individual part doesn’t make sense by itself.
You might have a cymbal over here, and the player might have one cymbal crash in the whole piece. They have a whole sheet of music and there’s only one marking on it. He’s gotta count for 3000 measures and not miss that cymbal crash right at the end.
You’ve got all these players with their parts, and nobody sees the entire picture. They’re just counting and waiting for their moment of fame, their moment of glory.
There’s only one person who knows what’s going on. That’s the conductor. Because he has the score in front of him, he sees the cymbal crashes that when you hear it you might say, “Ahhh, that scared me!”
Sometimes in life there’s a cymbal crash. It doesn’t make sense. It seems at a strange time. And yet the conductor knew just when it was coming. And you have all these counter melodies going on—designed to create tension, designed to create dissonance, and then it resolves.
Our lives are like a symphony written by the master composer, the great conductor, the God of heaven. As we look at our lives, we don’t make sense of it. All I’ve got is my little part right here in front of me. I’m trying to play it well and watch the conductor.
Watching the conductor makes all the difference in the complete symphony coming together. When the entire piece is completed and heard, It makes sense. It brings praise to our Lord, God, and Savior.
If you have a song of praise in your life, Scripture doesn’t say it’s something that others hear, it says it’s something others see. If your life is a song of praise, then others will see it. We’re not only supposed to sing a song of praise, but our life is also supposed to be a song of praise.
‘O rejoice in the Lord, He makes no mistakes. He knoweth the end of each path that I take. For when I am tried and purified. I shall come forth as gold.”
Thank you for your love, Lord. Thank you for orchestrating my life. Thank you for all those counter melodies. Thank you for that cymbal crash. Sometimes life is a sweet line of a violin, sometimes it’s a melancholy line of an oboe. The master conductor, the master composer knows what He’s doing, and we need to rejoice in the Lord.”
Above are words from Ron (Patch) Hamilton, also known as “Patch the Pirate”, who was an American Christian singer, songwriter, composer, preacher, voice actor, and personality. He was president and owner of Majesty Music, a Christian music publisher, and the creator of the Patch the Pirate Adventure series.
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